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Infodemic

An infodemic is a rapid and far-reaching spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about certain issues. The word is a portmanteau of information and epidemic and is used as a metaphor to describe how misinformation and disinformation can spread like a virus from person to person and affect people like a disease. This term, originally coined in…

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Infodemic

Nodes86
Edges85
Triples83
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023256
Components1

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related to history · 35
Infodemic → American Scientists, By, Center, China, China Daily, Chinese, David Rothkopf, February, Federation, Guangdong, He, Health Security, His, In, Intellibridge, January, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School, May, New Jersey, Newsday
related to Criticism · 19
Infodemic → Along, August, Camargo, Chico Camargo, Communication, Felix Simon, Financial Times, Freiling, Instead, July, Krause, New Media, Oxford University, Pointing, Scheufele, Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Simon, Society, Venkataramakrishnan
related to Mitigation · 11
Infodemic → COVID-19, Facebook, For, Gunther Eysenbach, Research, Researchers, Scholars, Social, Standards, The, When
related to Definitions · 8
Infodemic → February, In, May, On, Rothkopf, The Washington Post, WHO, World Health Organization
related to In popular culture · 7
Infodemic → Hacen, In, Journalism, MIL, Mí No Me La, PC, Peruvian
is a · 1
Infodemic → rapid and far-reaching spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about certain issues

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information covid-19 misinformation media pandemic sars health term spread 2020 research published said 2003 rothkopf also outbreak public social disease

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Infodemicis arapid and far-reaching spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about certain issues0.90text
fact-checkinginstance ofencouraging knowledge refinement and quality improvement processes0.80text
peer-reviewinstance ofencouraging knowledge refinement and quality improvement processes0.80text
Infodemicrelated to CriticismFinancial Times0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismSiddharth Venkataramakrishnan0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismAugust0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismVenkataramakrishnan0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismCommunication0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismFelix Simon0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismChico Camargo0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismOxford University0.60section
Infodemicrelated to CriticismJuly0.60section

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